Improvement in awnings for animals



SIMON MOFFITT, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

Letters Patent No. 113,323, dated April 4, 1871. o

IMPROVEMENT IN AWNINGS FOR ANIMALS.

The Schedule referred 'to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

`To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, SIMON MOFFITT, of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and improved Awning- Frame for Animals; an'd I do hereby declare the 'following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which the drawing represents `an end i'iew of my improved awning-frame.

My inventionv relates' to that class of awnings for draft-animals which is supported by connection of the bows of the same with the thills or shafts of the vehicle; and

It consists in a 'double' awning supported by and vertically adjustable on a standard or standards which rise from the pole or tongue -of a vehicle, each awning or bow being constructed andy arranged to cover one of the horsesof the double team, as hereinafter set forth. Y i

In the drawingo krepresents the tongue or pole of a two-horse vehicle, in which are stepped one or more standards, h.

l is a block placed on the standard, and made vertically adjustable by means of the pin m, fitting in holes in the standard h.

` or sections, fastened together by bands e and screws r, and having their inner ends keyed in the blocks. This construction enables thev bow sections to be taken apart and packed oompactly for convenience `of trans'- portation. lhe oiiee of Athe bows is to support -a cloth thrown over them. ,i

The cloth is secured to knobs or buttons 'i fi on the end bows.

Strips, j', are fastened tops and sides of the bows, for the purpose of preventing the awning from sinking in between the bows, and also for bracing or rendering the bows more rigid.

This construction .provides a light Vand cheap awning, and one easily attached or removed from the pole, while adapted for adjustment according; lto the size of the horses or other animals used, or the condition of the weather, 85o.: s I do not claim a double awning, or an awning for a double team; but 5 i The awning herein described, composed of the standard h, vertically-adj ustable block l, and two sets of seetional bows, c c, secured together by bands and screws, all arranged to'operate as herein shown and described.

' SIMON- MOFFIT'I.

Witnesses SoLoN C. KEMON,

b b are iron ribs or bows, made in two or more pieces Taos. D. D. DURAND.

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